Oh... Could you maybe also allow us to change a crew member's headgear? Most of them look quite stupid imo.
This is extra funny, because the first guy I recruited got a brown uniform, which I thought "Hey, neat, it takes the colour from the colour of my own uniform, I guess?", since I had coloured mine... brown. Then I promptly got two yellows and was like wat.
Are there truly any planets with enough structures to be used as quest zones that would make doing the same quests in slightly different locations less boring? As far as i can tell planet generation consists of 1/2 little areas like that and almost always one village of some kind. Assuming there are more types of quests, they're very obviously too rare if they've yet to be seen in the same volume the others have
I would LOVE to see multiple quest endings, especially in the area of theft. Also, why not take into account the idea that you're the colony leader? Why not have quests that have you investigating crimes and determining who is guilty, and then assigning minor punishments? For instance, finding one NPC's hat in another NPC's storage? You could interrogate other NPC's regarding the theft and eventually figure out if it was planted there or really stolen.
An interesting idea... but... what about those of us who are not Sherlock Holmes, or Adrian Monk, or the like? With that said, I agree, Multi-Path Quests would go far towards making the Quest System funner. Maybe some of us don't wanna help that bad guy out & we don't wanna be bad guys either. Or, maybe some of us have different ideas in regards to what is or is not an 'honorable' thing to do... & stuff like that. (What, ya dropped your Weapon? Ya don't seriously think that makes all the Innocents ya killed & evil ya've wrought suddenly not matter anymore, do ya Big Bad? )
Well, no not really... since a planet has limited number of major surface structures as you point out... although quest zones aren't limited to these, plenty of the unassuming little structures like ruins or ponds also count as quest zones... having said that there is definitely not enough variety in the generated quests that is something that simply can't be denied.
Also i've now explored a couple Ocean Planets & notice that it's low amount of Surface Land leaves too little space for Quest Zones to ever get enough Questage from Hylotls, so one can't help but to wonder how in the Halibut one is ever supposed to try to coax any of them to wanna join ya... not to mention if they ever fall off the Island they are on & end up spending the rest of their life on the Ocean Floor cause they can't seem to figure out how to swim back up to the Surface despite the fact that they're Fish People. Oh well, if I had gotten a Hylotl to join my Crew, my current existing 4 Floran Crewmembers probably woulda just ate'em anyway.
@Axe Garian: not actually fish people. It's as wrong as calling an apex "monkey man". And yet NPCs in the game call them that anyway because why should they be educated, right?
Ahh, then my bad... though to be fair Apex do look like Ape People & Hylotl do look like Fish People regardless of what they actually are. Do Florans also get annoyed if they're called Plant People? For the Topic: Why do the Hylotl offer little more in the way of Quests then the 'Plant stuff, make it into food, give the food to someone' kinda Quest?
Because apes don't have tails and monkeys do. And humans are a kind of ape. Floran are in fact plant people.
Ahh, many thanks for the Info. I'm still trying to re-familiarize with this game after the long hiatus. Oh yeah, I keep forgetting about that Tail vs No Tail thing. Many thanks for your Info too. For the Topic: Why does it seem almost impossible to Recruit Hylotl Crew? & if I ever pulled it off, would my Floran Crew eat them?
That's an odd question. The last one, since the only one they would be less likely to eat would be glitch; due to having to strip the shell, and probably finding not much to even eat. Could almost say the same of novakids, but I'd imagine that would be more of curiosity of walking suns; so sun bathing at it's best. I don't think it is impossible, just maybe your chance that is happening; just remember to not have crew with you planetside when you are trying to recruit. As then there would not be an available spot for them to be recruited. Of course I haven't attempted to do so myself, but recruiting can be for the most part just something across the board the same when doing it from villages/colonies. As it is the same, just chances of when is somewhat random it seems...
I was wondering if Floran Crew Members would eat Hylotl cause of the Lore. Also can't seem to even get enough Quests from Hylotl to get them to join cause the Ocean Planets they Generate on have too little Landmass to hold enough Quest Spots for Quest Fuel. Plus having them only ever want me to Farm stuff for them then make food to give to peeps is getting boring fast.
One reason I guess it is better to make colony of own, or find a land based one not on an ocean planet. Since NPCs are somewhat hydrophobic to a degree... probably why quite a few tend to be on landmass. Although I would imagine if there was a Hylotl ruin on the same planet, there would be a few there as well, since there are areas not waterlogged. Still trying to assess the questing system, in location chosen for certain quests; even if I know roughly how it is done due to the description of that one blog post. Sometimes you get a lot of those farming ones... and sometimes you get a lot of combat ones. Wonder how an escort quest would even work on an underwater village...
Ah, so Hylotl do Colonize non-Water Planets? I'll try to be on the lookout then. Many thanks! Also, thus far i've found 2 Underwater Hylotl Villages that looked long abandoned & have never yet seen any Hylotl there. They never look inhabited or lived in.
Sure do, although the land dwelling one I didn't find on an ocean planet. I've only found 2 underwater cities of Hylotl, and 3 of the abandoned ones that go underground; out of 4 ocean planets. The land dwelling ones will have the asian style buildings, while the city underwater is more sci-fi modern with functioning airlocks.
I've run quests in underwater Hylotl cities that ran the full gamut, actually. The "help me get a cool helmet", the "fight bandits at the old ruins", the "plant these and cook this", the "get a gift for this person", etc... don't worry, there's plenty of variation.
You wish your NPCs would give you more varied quests, or you wish NPCs would get you gifts and cool helmets? Don't we all. That said, different kinds of NPCs seem biased towards certain quests. I had a Miniknog researcher who kept hiring me to conduct "social engineering" (i.e. threaten another resident with a weapon to make them obey, because the Miniknog does not understand subtlety). Eventually I got tired of it and evicted her. Also, could you provide coordinates to the planet with the castle? I haven't found one of those yet, and I'd love to take a look. Just copy them down from the ship's display, please.
